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Hacker News (Apr 2019)

  1. Seven databases in seven weeks (2014)

    135 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  2. Apple tells lawmakers people will hurt themselves if they try to fix iPhones

    135 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  3. F18 Fortran compiler and runtime project is accepted as part of LLVM project

    135 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  4. Search Benchmarking: RediSearch vs. Elasticsearch

    135 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  5. A PHP Compiler, a.k.a. the FFI Rabbit Hole

    135 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  6. Databricks open-sources Delta Lake to make data lakes more reliable

    135 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  7. My Laptop Bit Me – The Shocking Truth (2012)

    134 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  8. The sexes don’t feel pain the same way

    134 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  9. A $230k debt and a LinkedIn message led an ex-CIA officer to spy for China

    134 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  10. Generate Hacker News Comments from Titles

    133 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  11. Using JSON Schema to Document, Test, and Debug APIs

    133 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  12. Source for CARBANAK backdoor leaked and placed on GitHub

    132 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  13. Apply Unix Principles to Write Testable Microservices

    132 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  14. Cloud Code – A new set of plug-ins for IntelliJ and VS Code

    132 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  15. A Brief and Brisk Overview of Compiler Architecture

    132 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  16. Kustomize – Templating in Kubernetes

    132 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  17. Trying to make sense of CompuServe server hard disk images

    132 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  18. Google’s Sensorvault Is a Boon for Law Enforcement

    132 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  19. Why I Switched from Visual Studio Code to JetBrains WebStorm

    131 points • comment • apr 13, 2019

  20. Apollo 15 postage stamp incident

    131 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  21. The Drones and Robots That Helped Save Notre Dame

    131 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  22. The Anhei tokamak is first in the world to generate 100M degrees Celsius

    131 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  23. Emperor Akihito: Japanese monarch declares historic abdication

    131 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  24. The Day Feynman Worked Out Black-Hole Radiation on My Blackboard

    131 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  25. Fearing More Violence, Sri Lanka Silences Social Media

    131 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  26. Apple now repairing MacBook keyboards in store, promising next day turnaround

    131 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  27. The Saddest Thing I Know about the Integers

    131 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  28. On Oliver Sacks and His Obsession with Weightlifting

    131 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  29. KaiOS takes on the Apple-Android mobile duopoly

    131 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  30. Joy of Computing – Daily Links from the Recurse Community

    131 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  31. Jane Manchun Wong: App researcher who unlocks new features before they launch

    130 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  32. Australia Passes Law to Punish Social Media Companies for Violent Posts

    130 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  33. Ask HN: As managers, how do you make sure your distributed team is aligned?

    130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  34. Cops can force your finger onto an iPhone to see if it unlocks, says judge

    130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  35. Our Stripe Billing implementation and the one webhook to rule them all

    130 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  36. How Bad Is Your Colormap? (2014)

    130 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  37. How the dream of cheap streaming television became a pricey, complicated mess

    130 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  38. Peter's Evil Overlord List (1996)

    130 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  39. WebAssembly Troubles Part 4: Microwasm

    130 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  40. An Introduction to C and GUI Programming

    130 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  41. A Practical Guide to Hyperparameter Optimization

    129 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  42. Lack of redundancies on Boeing 737 MAX baffles some involved in developing it

    129 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  43. Launch HN: Trexo Robotics (YC W19) – Robotic Legs for Kids with Cerebral Palsy

    129 points • comment • apr 29, 2019

  44. Electric Cars Hit Record in Norway

    129 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  45. Dark Matter Detector Records One of the Rarest Events Known to Science

    129 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  46. Residents concerned about DNA-for-cash transactions in Louisville

    129 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  47. My Roommate's Tik Tok Fame Made My Life Hell (2018)

    129 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  48. Building a Passive IMSI Catcher

    128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  49. U.S.-Thai pair facing death for 'sea home' should fight charge, Thailand says

    128 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  50. GPS Time Rollover Failures Keep Happening, But They’re Almost Done

    128 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  51. Firefox Beta for Windows 10 on Qualcomm Snapdragon Now Available

    128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  52. “Problems” with git format-patch

    128 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  53. ‘China’s Manhattan’ Borrowed Heavily, but the People Have Yet to Arrive

    128 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  54. Saudi Aramco Is World’s Most Profitable Company, Far Exceeding Apple

    128 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  55. Measuring the overhead of WebAssembly using libsodium

    128 points • comment • apr 09, 2019

  56. Brain Drain Across the United States

    128 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  57. Nothing Fails Like Success

    128 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  58. The New York Times sells premium ads based on how an article makes you feel

    128 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  59. American Hackers Helped UAE Spy on Al Jazeera Chairman, BBC Host

    127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  60. Samsung's folding phone breaks for reviewers

    127 points • comment • apr 18, 2019

  61. Kofola, the Cold War Drink of Czechoslovakia

    127 points • comment • apr 03, 2019

  62. PayPal Alternatives for Startups

    127 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  63. A once abandoned drug compound shows an ability to rebuild organs

    127 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  64. Thundering Herds and Promises

    127 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  65. VPN services blocked in Sri Lanka as information controls tighten

    127 points • comment • apr 25, 2019

  66. Samurai Helmets

    127 points • comment • apr 19, 2019

  67. On-Demand Startups Are Hemorrhaging Tens of Billions a Year

    127 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  68. Serious flaws leave WPA3 vulnerable to hacks that steal Wi-Fi passwords

    127 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  69. Responsible JavaScript: Part I

    127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  70. Virtually Unlimited Memory: Escaping the Chrome Sandbox

    127 points • comment • apr 15, 2019

  71. The Samsung Galaxy Fold's display seems to have problems

    126 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  72. Does the LHC collide protons at twice the speed of light?

    126 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  73. Dear AI startups: Your ML models are dying quietly

    126 points • comment • apr 22, 2019

  74. Show HN: Tetris Implemented in ClojureScript

    126 points • comment • apr 20, 2019

  75. Codecademy vs. the BBC Micro

    126 points • comment • apr 08, 2019

  76. Why we’re switching to calendar versioning

    126 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  77. Put Another Zero on Facebook’s Fine. Then We Can Talk

    126 points • comment • apr 26, 2019

  78. Ask HN: How do you secure your Mac?

    125 points • comment • apr 17, 2019

  79. How Big Business Is Hedging Against the Apocalypse

    125 points • comment • apr 14, 2019

  80. Multiple Boeing 787s in China experienced GPS 20 years rollover issue

    125 points • comment • apr 07, 2019

  81. A million people live in underground nuclear bunkers in Beijing (2017)

    125 points • comment • apr 06, 2019

  82. Surge Synthesizer

    125 points • comment • apr 30, 2019

  83. From Theory to Systems: A Grounded Approach to Programming Language Education

    125 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  84. Super Mario Bros. Commodore 64 Fan Port Hit with DMCA

    125 points • comment • apr 24, 2019

  85. YouTube is trying to reward “quality” content

    125 points • comment • apr 12, 2019

  86. NLP on Mueller Report

    125 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  87. Lambda School wants to teach nursing

    124 points • comment • apr 28, 2019

  88. Show HN: Sortraits, Portraits of Sorting Algorithms

    124 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  89. Dagen H: The Day Sweden Switched Traffic Sides

    124 points • comment • apr 11, 2019

  90. Graphiti: Stylish Graph APIs

    124 points • comment • apr 23, 2019

  91. Pluggable Storage Committed in Postgres

    124 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  92. Study Linking Autism to 'Male Brain' Retracted, Replaced

    124 points • comment • apr 02, 2019

  93. Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio says capitalism is failing America

    123 points • comment • apr 05, 2019

  94. Indian government asks Apple and Google to take down TikTok app

    123 points • comment • apr 16, 2019

  95. Open Questions about Generative Adversarial Networks

    123 points • comment • apr 10, 2019

  96. Inverse Live Coding: A practice for learning web development

    123 points • comment • apr 04, 2019

  97. Size visualization of Go executables using D3

    123 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  98. The Guardians of the French Language Are Deadlocked

    123 points • comment • apr 01, 2019

  99. Embracing Swift for Deep Learning

    123 points • comment • apr 21, 2019

  100. Distributions vs. Releases: Why Python Packaging Is Hard

    123 points • comment • apr 30, 2019